16 July 1918: Tsar Nicholas II and the rest of the Imperial family, his wife and five children, including little Alexei who was in his father's arms, were murdered by the Bolsheviks, shot and stabbed in the basement of the house in Siberia where the Romanovs had been imprisoned. 
The Bolshevik coup was eight-months-old when they massacred the Romanovs. The Whites were still resisting this new and worse form of despotism, but the outside intervention was half-hearted (see ). A terrible tragedy Bolshevism wasn't killed in its cradle.
The scene as the Bolsheviks murdered the Imperial family: drunken killers wildly stabbing and shooting children. The Soviet Union started as it meant to go on. amzn.to/2LnXLTG
